16. Your love and noble heart can convert the stone into down.

Swami Vivekananda

25 April 1894

NEW YORK,

25th April, 1894.

DEAR PROFESSOR, [1]

ⓘ[1] Prof. John Henry Wright.

I am very very grateful for your invitation. And will come on May 7th. As for the bed—my friend, your love and noble heart can convert the stone into down.

I am sorry I am not going to the authors’ breakfast at Salem.

I am coming home by May 7th.

Yours truly,
VIVEKANANDA.

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Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902) was an Indian saint, social reformer, and a great teacher of mankind. He was the foremost disciple of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Dev who is considered as the prophet of modern age. Swami Vivekananda was a towering spiritual personality, great thinker, orator and the prophet of universal harmony and progress.

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